Did you end up going this route? Was thinking of placing a copper coil in there that empties into a 5 gal reservoir and keeping the mini-fridge at the coldest possible temp. Using the glycol to cool a sleeved fermentor and chill wort via a heat exchanger. What were you thinking of using to pump the glycol?

1. Air is a poor conductor of heat and cold
2. The mini fridge has a low capacity to remove the heat.

If you have much demand on the "glycol" then the fridge will not be able to keep up. Depending on the application this could work. But there are a lot of variables at play here.

You would probably be better off buying a small AC unit off CL and hacking it up into a DIY glycol chiller. I use something like that and it works really well. I set the glycol bath to 25 and I have full control of my fermenter.

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